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Your most exotic places and any plans to visit others ?

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GrannyGravy13 Wed 18-Feb-26 10:18:19

I was due to fly to Melbourne end of March last year to visit our Aussie contingent, and meet DH in New Zealand a week later. Unfortunately I fell on our drive, broke my foot and injured the opposite knee, which rather clipped my wings.

For some reason DH is reluctant to book anything at the moment, I must work out how to get him to think it’s his idea 🤫

Kate1949 Wed 18-Feb-26 10:17:49

Favourite place we've visited for me Venice. Five times. I'm obsessed with the place. Never been anywhere you could call exotic but have been to

Santorini
New York
The Amalfi Coast
Seville
Paris
Florence
Many others.

Place I would love to go - Venice again grin

nanna8 Wed 18-Feb-26 10:13:33

I know what you mean about logistics! I don’t like flying much, either . New Zealand is only about 3 and a half hours by plane for us so we go there sometimes. Lovely country and so quiet compared with here.

TerriBull Wed 18-Feb-26 10:09:55

Argentina, I'll always hold it in my memory as my number one destination, particularly loved Buenos Aires and the Iguazu Falls, truly amazing and awesome.

I've also loved the many places we've visited in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia....sadly never made it to NZ that was an ambition once, but of late I've come to hate flying so it's probably off the agenda even though we have very close friends in Auckland and told them we would visit, but have met up with them several times in mainland Europe they miss the ancient world, so that seemed somewhat easier.

Mainland Europe most of it but particularly love Italy, real Spain as in the parts that haven't been ruined, France. I'd like to see a bit more of Scandinavia have only been to Denmark.

Sometimes I'm just grateful for the places I have seen. I love the thought of the destination, it's the logistics of getting there that increasingly puts me off.

nanna8 Wed 18-Feb-26 10:08:04

It is such a long way for us now GrannyGravy13 I would just love to see some of the African animals and wish we had gone on a safari tour when we were younger.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 18-Feb-26 09:38:12

We were due to go to India (touring around for 4 weeks) when Covid struck, haven’t rescheduled yet.

We are fortunate to have travelled to most places we have wanted to see, other than India and Argentina.

Don’t rule out Africa nanna8 it’s a fascinating and diverse continent.

nanna8 Wed 18-Feb-26 09:33:43

I was thinking over our past of distant places we probably will never see again and a few of the most ‘ exotic ‘ were
Norfolk Island
Xian in China
Dubai
Vanuatu Tanna Island when we nearly got killed by an erupting volcano
And in Europe Bergen, Dubrovnik and Corfu. I have never been to Africa or the USA and I don’t think we will,now.
We are going to Samoa in a couple of weeks, could be another ?